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The sign for Hi Tech Service on Nolensville Road, between an auto repair shop and a mattress depot, couldn’t look more low-tech if it tried. With black letters on a white cinder block building, it looks older than the flip-phone or Netscape Navigator, because it is. “We’ve been here 33 years,” says founder and proprietor Tom Brucker sitting at the counter in the long building’s reception area. “The front area is the world’s smallest stereo store.and then the rest is all service.”
For decades, Brucker has been Nashville’s go-to guy to repair the gear that plays our music at home: amplifiers, turntables, loudspeakers, tape decks, CD players and beyond. On a recent visit, there were hundreds of those components on long shelves in multiple rooms and down a long spine-like hallway, standing in ranks on their sides. “We ve ended up storing quite a bit of the overflow and consignment,” Brucker said. “I probably got carried away with it.”
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Tom Brucker stands outside his time capsule of a hi-fi store and repair shop off Nolensville Pike helping a friend load an old DVD player into a van. Brucker says he’s trying to keep as much equipment as possible from being tossed when Hi Tech Service closes its doors at the end of May.
“It’s like adopting puppies,” Brucker says of all the receivers, speakers and other home stereo gear he’s parting with. “It’s part of finding a good home.”
Brucker moved to Nashville in 1978 and started working at Anderson Audio, where he repaired stereos, televisions and more. He eventually bought his own testing equipment, all of which went with him whenever he changed jobs and still sits on a crowded work table in his shop. In late 1984, Brucker and business partner Tommy Harmon bought out a dealer they worked for and opened Hi Tech in Madison. Later, they moved the shop to its current location at 2934 Nolensville Pike, and Brucker took full ownership in 1987.
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Analysis of user data by accountancy and tax app Hnry has revealed that less than
a quarter of one percent of self-employed Kiwis need to set
aside a third of their income for tax, yet thousands are
still being advised to do so.
For years, people
earning independently - whether self-employed, sole-traders,
freelancers or contractors - have been advised by
accountants and tax agents to hold back 33 percent of their
income to cover income tax, even though having an overall
tax rate of that amount is extremely unlikely. In fact, if
you earned a whopping $10 million per year, your income tax
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